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Editorial: The Scottish Enlightenment and the Challenges of Commercial Society
Rafał Lis
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The idea of commercial society should be definitely counted among the most important intellectual contributions of the Eighteenth Century Scottish philosophers, including Adam Smith, the author of the famous Wealth of Nations, and writers such as Adam Ferguson, Lord Kames, John Millar or William Robertson. Coming together with their accounts of a multi-stage progress of society, this idea promised to shift the focus of political thinkers onto socio-historical and economic considerations. By emphasising the importance of an ever-evolving institution of property, together with its social contexts and implications, the Scots could help to better understand the emerging “commercial” modernity. Especially important in this respect was their recognition of the effects that the new commercial relations began to have on the sphere of morals, including perceptions of vice and virtue and patterns of both social and personal behaviour...
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